Abstract: Provided is a refrigeration valve having a valve body having an inlet, an outlet, and a flow passage defined therebetween, an expansion valve in the flow passage, a first hand valve between the inlet and the expansion valve, and a second hand valve between the outlet and the expansion valve. The first and second hand valves are provided at a top of the valve body and are movable in a first direction for preventing fluid flow through the flow passage. By providing the first and second hand valves at the top of the valve body rather than at a bottom of the valve body, valve life is increased and the valves are not prevented from operating due to particulate build up in the valves.

Abstract: A disclosed cryogenic refrigerator includes a first refrigerator including a compressor, a regenerator which performs intake or ejection of a refrigerant gas relative to the compressor, and a pulse tube whose low temperature end is connected to a low temperature end of the regenerator; a second refrigerator having an output smaller than the first refrigerator; a connecting pipe which performs intake and ejection of the refrigerant gas relative to a high temperature end of the pulse tube and the second refrigerator; and a flow control valve which is provided in the connecting pipe and performs a flow control of the refrigerant gas flowing inside the connecting pipe.

Abstract: A compressor mount bracket has a mount floor extending to be perpendicular to a square side extending away from the mount floor in a first direction. A closure side extends from the mount floor in the first direction. An outer surface faces away from the square side. An angled side extends at a non-parallel angle from the square side and back over the mount floor. A mount location extends from the angled side, and further over the mount floor. The closure side extends along the angled side and the mount location. The mount location has a first thickness, and the angled side has a second thickness. A ratio of the first thickness to the second thickness is between 1.38 and 1.63. A cabin air supply system and a method of servicing a cabin air supply system are also disclosed.

Abstract: A refrigerator having an air pressure controllable storage container is allowed to control air pressure of the storage container to be temporarily lower than initial air pressure by turning on and off a vacuum pump. The vacuum pump sucks internal air of the storage container, and a controller turns on the vacuum pump such that internal air pressure of the storage container is lower than the initial air pressure, and turns off the vacuum pump such that the internal air pressure is restored to the initial air pressure.

Abstract: A compressor cross bracket for use in an air supply system for an aircraft comprises a ledge extending away from a main body. The main body has ends at opposed sides and a ditch defined between the ends. Each of the ends have at least one bolt hole which has a diameter. A thickness of the ledge is defined in a direction from which the main body extends from the ledge, with a ratio of the thickness to the diameter being between 0.636 and 0.680. A cabin air supply system and a method of servicing a cabin air supply system are also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention concerns an air conditioning system for conditioning the air of a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle including a housing with a first flow channel and a second flow channel for conducting air and a refrigerant circuit with an evaporator and a condenser. The evaporator is arranged in the first flow channel and the condenser in the second flow channel. The air conditioning system is designed for cooling and heating the passenger compartment and for a reheat operation. The setting of the operating mode is done only via the controlling of air guidance mechanisms. One of the heat exchangers evaporator or condenser is arranged with a part of the heat transfer surface in both the first and the second flow channel.

Abstract: A cryogenic refrigerator includes a compressor that compresses a working gas; an expansion chamber where the working gas compressed by the compressor expands and generates cooling; a valve mechanism including a stator valve and a rotor valve, which rotates with respect to the stator valve; and a forcing mechanism that applies a force to one of the rotor valve or the stator valve toward the other one of the rotor valve or the stator valve. The valve mechanism is configured to switch a flow of the working gas between the compressor and the expansion chamber as the rotor valve rotates. The forcing mechanism is arranged such that the center of the force applied by the forcing mechanism deviates from the center of the valve mechanism.

Abstract: An evaporator for an appliance includes a conduit extending between an inlet and an outlet. The conduit has a diameter. The diameter of the conduit is less than three-eighths of an inch. A vapor bypass is mounted to the conduit such that the vapor bypass extends between the inlet of the conduit and the outlet of the conduit. The vapor bypass has a diameter. The diameter of the vapor bypass is less than the diameter of the conduit.

Abstract: An appliance including an ice manipulation reservoir capable of receiving ice having a base, wherein the base includes a first level and a second level, with the first level descending gradually to the second level. A first ice modification member is disposed inside the ice manipulation reservoir adjacent the first level of the base, and a second ice modification member is disposed inside the ice manipulation reservoir adjacent the second level of the base. A motor is operably connected with the ice manipulation reservoir and includes an output shaft. An impeller is connected with the output shaft proximate to the plurality of ice modification members, with the impeller being operable between a first directional rotation, and a second directional rotation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a modular passive refrigeration container for the cold storage and transport of goods, especially fresh produce and deep-frozen goods as well as to a method for the assembly of such a modular passive refrigerated container, comprising at least: (i) a cooling element, suitable for binary ice as coolant, comprising at least three plate-shaped hollow cooling segments, wherein the plate-shaped cooling segments define at least a portion of the refrigeration space, (ii) an insulation material in plate form, and (iii) a housing, suitable for receiving said cooling element and said insulating material in plate form, wherein said cooling element is removably surrounded by said housing, and wherein a space between the said cooling element and said housing is at least partially filled with said insulating material which is reversibly connected with either said housing or said cooling element or both.

Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes an interior condenser that exchanges heat between a high-pressure refrigerant and ventilation air to heat the ventilation air, an exterior heat exchanger that exchanges heat between outside air and the refrigerant downstream of the interior condenser, an interior evaporator that exchanges heat between a low-pressure refrigerant downstream of the exterior heat exchanger and the ventilation air before passing through the interior condenser, and an internal heat exchanger that exchanges heat between the refrigerant flowing out of the exterior heat exchanger and the refrigerant flowing out of the interior evaporator. The refrigeration cycle device further includes a gas-liquid separator that separates the refrigerant at a downstream side of the interior condenser into gas and liquid phase refrigerants.

Abstract: A water switch assembly for a nugget ice making assembly is provided. The ice making assembly includes a hollow auger rotatably mounted within a reservoir and configured for extruding ice. The water switch assembly extends vertically through the center of the ice making auger and reservoir. The water switch assembly is in fluid communication with a water inlet and includes a float for measuring the water level. In this manner, the water switch assembly is configured to control the level of water within the reservoir.

Abstract: A connecting device in a pulse tube cooler system branches such that a first line branch (11) has a first flexible line segment (4a) and a second line branch (12) has a second flexible line segment (4b), the flexible line segments being arranged in parallel with and offset from one another. The flexible line segments each have a front segment end (17, 18) and a rear segment end (19, 20), the front segment end (17) of the first flexible line segment (4a) and the rear segment end (20) of the second flexible line segment (4b) are rigidly connected to one another, the rear segment end (19) of the first flexible line segment (4a) and the front segment end (18) of the second flexible line segment (4b) are rigidly connected to one another, and there is no continuous rigid connection between the control valve and the cold head.

Abstract: An air conditioner and a method of controlling an air conditioner are provided. The method of controlling an air conditioner may include determining whether a low-load condition is satisfied on the basis of a number of indoor devices or a temperature of external air, performing a low-load operation of a compressor at a predetermined frequency when the low-load condition is satisfied, detecting whether an operation pressure is out of a target pressure value or range while the low-load operation is performed, and bypassing a refrigerant from the compressor to a gas/liquid separator via an injection passage when the operation pressure is out of the target pressure value or range.

Abstract: A refrigeration appliance has a refrigerator compartment container and an ice container for providing ice. The refrigerator compartment container delimits a refrigerator compartment. A receiving niche for receiving the ice container is formed in an exterior of the refrigerator compartment container. The receiving niche has an opening to the refrigerator compartment, wherein an opening of the ice container and the opening of the receiving niche are aligned flush with one another. The ice container has a container outer wall, a container inner wall and a thermal insulation, which is arranged between the container inner wall and the container outer wall.

Abstract: A refrigerated sales cabinet comprises a cabinet body providing a refrigerated sales space for supporting refrigerated goods to be presented therein; at least one door; and a door frame having a top post, a bottom post, and at least two upright posts. At least one of the posts comprises a main body having a constant cross-section including a rear wall portion, two side wall portions, respectively extending forward from the rear wall portion, and a support member extending between the two side wall portions. An insulating front element is attached to the support member by means of at least one connection element located in a central area of the support member of the main body, the central area laterally spaced apart from the two side wall portions.

Abstract: An equipment including a heat pump for heating with a large temperature differential an external fluid, said heat pump including: first and second heat exchangers; a coolant; a coolant circuit including a compression unit connected to an outlet of the first heat exchanger and to an inlet of the second heat exchanger and an expansion unit connected to an outlet of the second heat exchanger and to an inlet of the first heat exchanger, wherein the coolant is one of the coolants selected from among a hydrofluorocarbon coolant and a hydrofluoroolefin coolant, and wherein the second heat exchanger and the coolant circuit are suitable for circulating the coolant in a transcritical cycle.

Abstract: An air conditioner and a method for controlling an air conditioner are provided. The air conditioner may include at least one indoor device, an outdoor device connected to the indoor device, the outdoor device including a compressor that compresses refrigerant, an engine generating a power using combustion gas, a generator that generates electricity using the power, a battery that receives at least a portion of the electricity, a first supply line that supplies the electricity stored in the battery into the outdoor device, and a second supply line that supplies the electricity stored in the battery into the at least one indoor device. The battery is charged by the generator, or the electricity stored in the battery is discharged into the indoor device or the outdoor device according to operation performance of each of the indoor device and the outdoor device.

Abstract: A flash tank economizer includes a sensor for sensing a condition indicative of pressure in the flash tank, and when that pressure is found to equal or exceed the critical pressure of the particular refrigerant being used, a controller responsively closes a valve in the economizer vapor line to shut off the economizer. A sensor is also provided to sense the pressure at the compressor mid-stage, and if that pressure is found to exceed the pressure in the flash tank, the controller causes the flow control device to function so as to prevent the flow of refrigerant from the compressor mid-stage to the flash tank. Provision is also made for selectively draining refrigerant from the flash tank to reduce the pressure therein from a supercritical to a subcritical condition.

Abstract: A collapsible insulated container has a base wall and a peripheral wall with an open end defining an enclosure. The peripheral wall has at least two layers and is divided into elongate pockets between the layers, with foldable crease lines between adjacent pockets. Each pocket contains a flexible-walled, insulating gel pack which substantially fills the pocket. The crease lines may be defined by stitching securing the outer and inner layers of the container together. The gel packs may be surrounded by matting, foam or mesh material which is sewn into the lines of stitching, or may have integral peripheral rims sewn into the lines of stitching. The container is foldable between an erect, open condition and a storage condition in which it is folded along the crease lines into a substantially flattened package.